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designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …
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designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … they anticipate the selfishness of other members. Within teams, the member with median social preferences leads the team …
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designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377317
designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010858037
designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884177
We present the results of an experiment that measures social preferences within couples in a context where intra …
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Meritocracies aspire to reward effort and hard work but promise not to judge individuals by the circumstances they were born into. The choice to work hard is, however, often shaped by circumstances. This study investigates whether people's merit judgments are sensitive to this endogeneity of...
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circumstances. In an experiment, US participants judge how much money workers deserve for the effort they exert. Unequal …
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Engelmann and Strobel (AER 2004) question the relevance of inequity aversion in simple dictator game experiments claiming that a combination of a preference for efficiency and a Rawlsian motive for helping the least well-off is more important than inequity aversion. We show that these results...
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We study the design of a team in multi-team contests.Is it better to distribute prizes among players equally, or to … just one player? And is it better to spend a budget on a diverse team with stars and rookies, or on an equal team? First …) hire superstars and rookies, and reward superstars the most, or (ii) hire a homogeneous team and reward everyone equally …
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